Description
The Nature Mates Nature Club has released a dataset entitled "Sample study on Avian diversity of Chupi Oxbow Lake, Purbasthali, Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal" The Purbasthali, also known as Chupir Char or beel locally, covers 2.19 km of water and stretches from 23°25′54′′ to 23°27′54′′N and 88°19′45′′ to 88°21′54′′E. (Mandal et al. 2018). In West Bengal’s lower Gangetic delta, the wetland is situated between the districts of Nadia and Purba Barddhaman (Mandal & Siddique, 2018). Due to its link with the river at its southern end across a narrow strait, this water body has a distinctive combination of lacustrine (lentic) and riverine (lotic) habitats (Ganesan & Khan 2007). The lake’s crescent-shaped shape was created between 1989 and 1991 as a result of the lateral displacement of the river stream and concurrent erosion and deposition processes (Mandal & Siddique, 2018). According to the Ramsar classification, the wetland of Purbasthali (Chupir Char), which is physiographically an oxbow lake, is designated as a marsh (jheel) of Gangetic Alluvial Plains (Mandal & Siddique 2018). The habitat of an oxbow lake is typically Adjacent to a river and favorable for the establishment of numerous species of fauna and plants (Ward et al. 1999; Stella et al. 2011). This lake is connected to the River Bhagirathi by a little waterway. As usual, this oxbow lake offers a good habitat for various water bird species. The lake is currently threatened by habitat loss due to the overgrowing of Water Hyacinth. Large numbers of birds in and around Chupi Lake were studied. This dataset includes all the water birds recorded on the 21st of January 2024. All the birds are identified up to the species level. 32 species of birds belonging to 10 orders and 15 families were recorded from this oxbow lake.
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Basu Roy A, Rong A, Chatterjee L, Samanta T, Sengupta N, Barve V (2024). Sample study on Avian diversity of Chupi Oxbow Lake, Purbasthali, Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal. Version 1.4. Nature Mates-Nature Club. Samplingevent dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=purbasthali_2024&v=1.4
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Nature Mates-Nature Club. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: fc3db224-f012-4caa-a3b0-1e04983a05fb. Nature Mates-Nature Club publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Samplingevent; Observation
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Geographic Coverage
Chupi Oxbow Lake, Purbasthali, Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [23.43, 88.334], North East [23.448, 88.347] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
All the birds are identified up to the species level. 32 species of birds belonging to 10 orders and 15 families were recorded from this oxbow lake.
| Class | Aves (Birds) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date | 2024-01-21 |
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Sampling Methods
Line Transect
| Study Extent | Chupi Oxbow Lake, Purbasthali, Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal |
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Method step description:
- Equipment used are binocular Olympus (10*50 DPS I ) Camera (Nikon Coolpix P900, P600, B600). Observed data were recorded in the field notebook.
Bibliographic Citations
- Grimmett R, Inskipp C, Inskipp T (2016) Birds of the Indian Subcontinent: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and the Maldives. Bloomsbury Publishing.
- eBird. (2022). eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Available: http://www.ebird.org
- IUCN. 2023. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2023-1. https://www.iucnredlist.org. Accessed on [30/03/2024].
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | fc3db224-f012-4caa-a3b0-1e04983a05fb |
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| https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=purbasthali_2024 |